The executors of Lady Churchill's estate admitted that she had burnt Graham Sutherland's portrait of Sir Winston Churchill 18 months after the House of Commons had presented it to him in 1954. Sir Winston ironically described it as a 'remarkable example of modern art'

The executors of Lady Churchill's estate admitted that she had burnt Graham Sutherland's portrait of Sir Winston Churchill 18 months after the House of Commons had presented it to him in 1954. Sir Winston ironically described it as a 'remarkable example of modern art'